Finding a ManCo partner for CP86

The digital approach – support from shareholders

Link Asset Services, in conjunction with the Share Society, launched a survey of the Share Society membership in 2017. The objective was to seek to understand how retail shareholders perceive the removal of paper and the increase in the digital delivery of the shareholder touchpoints around General Meeting voting.

CP86 - the end of the SMIC?

Exit from the EU – Article 50 triggered

Following the initial introduction of the Brexit Bill to the House of Commons, the Government published a White Paper in February setting out how the UK plans to leave the EU. Now Article 50 has been triggered the two-year Brexit clock will start ticking down with the UK’s exit from the EU to be completed by the end of March 2019.

Payments industry; the biggest shake-up in a generation

Last year UK dividends reached £80 billion and Capita Asset Services was a major payer of these dividends to equity investors on behalf of our issuer clients. We will be watching with interest as the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and the Payment Strategy Forum seek to implement proposals which could have major implications for payments systems in the UK.